The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай (dalai) meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word བླ་མ་ bla-ma (with a silent "b") meaning "teacher".
Source: New Haven Independent
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Source: Albequerque Express
The Dalai Lama, recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize, announced May 14 at the awards ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, that he would give $1.5 million of his prize money to Save the Children, India to mitigate malnourishment there."I have been ...
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Source: Phayul
DHARAMSHALA, May 24: A re-creation of the ‘Tibetan Proclamation of Independence’ issued by His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama in 1913 was publicly released yesterday evening at a ceremony held in the Tibetan exil ...
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